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Trans Crime UK collates media reports of crimes committed by transgender individuals in the UK; currently we are about halfway through publishing several hundred posts and have prioritised collating convictions of individuals from 2016, 2017 and 2018. We emphasize ‘individuals’ here, because we don’t think all males who identify as transgender are criminals in the same way as we don’t consider all men are criminals, despite the disparity in criminal convictions between men and women. The same disparity exists in the cases we’ve collected here; the overwhelming majority of offences have been committed by biological males.

We absolutely recognise that the majority of trans people live law-abiding lives and the individual crime reports documented on this site no more represent all trans people than Fred West or Harvey Weinstein represent all men. But crime is highly gendered, particularly sexual and violent offending, and some scientific studies indicate that a male pattern of criminality is retained among those males who transition to live as trans women.

This is important for several reasons, including:

The UK government is consulting in 2018 on proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 which could have profound consequences for women if they enable any man to self-identify as a transgender woman and access protections designed to redress abuse, inequality & discrimination suffered by women. Some reassurances have recently been given that changes will not put the rights of those who identify as women ahead of those who are biologically female. A clear summary of the potential issues is available in these articles in The Timeshereand here, this websiteor this TV discussion. Efforts among women to meet to discuss the Bill were physically attacked and/or sabotaged by trans activists in September, OctoberandNovember2017,January,February, March, three times in April, (here,here and here) and July2018, and police are investigating a bomb threatmade in June 2018. A report of a female trade union official being intimidated and verbally abused by trans activists on her own picket line after attending such a meeting run by Women’s Place is available here. A male trans activist, Tanis/Tara Wolf, was convicted in 2018 of assaulting a 60 year old woman attending one of the meetings.

The British Association of Gender Identity Specialists submitted evidenceto the Transgender Equality Inquiry on “the ever-increasing tide of referrals of patients in prison serving long or indeterminate sentences for serious sexual offences” and identified clear, worrying motivations for some male prisoners to transition; most alarming of which was a desire to make subsequent sexual offending very much easier. The British Psychological Society similarly warned the Inquiry to be “extremely cautious of setting law and policy such that some of the most dangerous people in society have greater latitude to offend” and were “aware of a number of cases where men convicted of sex crimes have falsely claimed to be transgender females.” The Times and the BBCrecently reported around half of trans prisoners are sex offenders, based on this studyand FOI requests. The number of trans prisoners in England & Wales has increased by 80% in the past year.

Violent crimes perpetrated by males who identify as transgender are already being recordedand reportedas being perpetrated by females. Given the asymmetry between male and female offending and the fact that crimes women rarely or cannot commit in the UK (such as rape) are being designated as ‘female’, there is huge potential for female crime statistics to be rendered meaningless if proposals to allow any man to self-identify as transgender are adopted. And how will any impact of self-declaration of gender be measured if we can’t reliably compare male and female offending before and after such a major change to the political, legal and societal classification of people?

Before eroding sex-based protections for women it is incumbent on the government to demonstrate that UK males who identify as transgender do not retain male pattern violent and sexual offending rates

If we cannot trust our criminal justice system and media to name and record crimes committed by male people against female people as male violence against women and girls, then sites like this are necessary and will remain necessary until fair and equitable solutions can be found that balance both women’s and transgender people’s rights.

Critical Sisters: a diverse group of left-wing feminists who stand in opposition to man-made beliefs, be that religious faith or the ideology of gender.

Transgender Trend: a group of parents based in the UK, who are concerned about the current trend to diagnose ‘gender non-conforming’ children as transgender. Shortlisted for the 2018 John Maddox Prize which “recognises the work of individuals who promote sound science and evidence on a matter of public interest, facing difficulty or hostility in doing so.”

Fourth Wave Now: A community of parents & others concerned about the medicalization of gender-atypical youth and rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD)

Acknowledgments

We wish to acknowledge that this site builds on work done by many women who have documented offending by male transgender individuals all over the world. You can access some of their work via links below.

In November 2018, Automattic (the company behind the blogging site WordPress.com) enacted a new, unannounced, change to their Terms of Service that redefined “the malicious publication of private details” to include any reference to the legal or former name of any individual who declares a transgender identity. Automattic then retroactively applied these changes to their TOS and deleted long-standing feminist blog Gender Trender. This post on 4thWaveNow contains a statement on the circumstances from Gallus Mag, the founder of Gender Trender. We salute her tireless work to uphold sex-based protections for women and girls.